“Have you tried reaching her cellphone?”Noah came out of the study with the phone in his hand. “She left it.”They had come back to the mansion an hour after rescuing Cathy and Ginny and rested until the next day.Asher and Lance were pacing the floor later that morning with their hands in their hair. Both men were tense and angry enough to ram their fists into the wall. Lance especially could almost imagine himself running into the enemy’s territory, guns blazing, ready to do battle and that was just what he wanted to do.He wasn’t alone in that desire. Asher couldn’t wait to attack the Dark Storm pack, the only thing keeping him from attacking was the fact that he wasn’t prepared for long-term war. Besides, Noah thought it was too soon to fight. They were unguarded and compared to the Dark Storm, their numbers were infinitely small.There would be casualties if they fought now.“Can’t you call Theodore? Ask him where she is?” Lance asked.“You heard what he said, he doesn’t know wh
Though the car was one of the fastest in the garage among the collection Ezra kept, moving almost at the speed of light, it was silent on the tarred road barely making a sound. The only sound was coming from the inside of the jeep and it was coming from the dashboard because Ginny had chosen to play some old romance music. The atmosphere created by the music was so much at odds with the atmosphere at the moment. The men wanted to go to war for the Luna of their newly merging pack, they weren’t interested in listening to Lionel Richie sing “Stuck on You” or Dionne Warwick singing “Whisper in the Dark.” If there was war music, probably an old dragon theme from a medieval movie played over men riding on horses into battle, that would have been a better fitting song at the moment.But they let her listen to her songs because she was young and foolish and romantic.Ginny didn’t care.She sat in front with Noah, knowing that if Asher wasn’t in the car with them he would have tied her up wit
“They are waiting, Lance.”Maggie watched him. He sat at the edge of the bed with his head in his hands. His breath was heavy in his palms and Maggie could see that every second he spend alone he got angrier. She wished she could reach out to touch him and tell him not to believe Vivian. But she was angry just watching him. How could he believe Vivian just like that? After all they had been through?!She was seething with rage but so was Lance and he stood from the bed and threw his jacket hard across the room.“Fuck!”Axel knocked again. “Lance, are you alright in there? They are waiting for you. Ezra is ready to leave for the chapel.”Lance clenched his fists. He slapped the palm of one hand against his fist and his nostrils flared as he fought to control himself. He went back to the bed.“Lance?”When he stood up he was surprisingly calm and he went to open the door. Axel’s face held a frown that showed his concern. He watched his older brother’s face but Lance’s face was very calm
“Why is she here?” Ezra demanded, his face was pale as he watched Maggie stumble upon them.Maggie watched that naïve version of herself come to the realization that it had been a trick. She watched as her trusting eyes clouded with regret and the bitter tears of betrayal a moment before Reggie grabbed her from behind and pulled her hands behind her.At first, she couldn’t even react to the pain, the only thing she could say was, “Why?”Her innocent brown eyes searched for Lance and she couldn’t hold her tears at the stony look on his face.“Lance,” she wailed.“Kill them,” came Ezekiel’s cold command.Maggie watched the scene and for the first time, she saw it unfold differently. In her memories, Lance had been so cold that he rushed at her and tore her heart out of her chest with no regrets or heed for her tears at all. But now that she watched it as an outsider, she saw how his hand shook. The ancient dagger he held in his hand wobbled as fear overcame him.“I – I – I can’t do it,”
Maggie’s back hit the tree. Her breath escaped her lungs, emptying them. She barely had time to refill her lungs with air when Phoenix came to stand in front of her.Evgan and Percy had recovered their breath and rose to their feet, they started to transform to attack the goddess. She turned to them with a look of pure disdain.“Have you learned nothing at all from the memories of your ancestors?” she asked them and with a flick of her finger sent them flying against another tree. This time she did not just stop there, she pinned them to the trees and took their voices, that way they could not cry out. Olivia and Jackson who remained on the floor were pinned there.Maggie opened her eyes. She was panting heavily. The pain in her chest, a result of her sudden contact with the tree, spread throughout the rest of her body.“You – you knew I was here?” Maggie whispered through the pain in her chest.“Nothing happens without my knowledge, mortal. You think I haven’t sensed you watching me
Noah rolled away just in time as an enemy wolf leaped from the tree with protracted claws aiming for his throat. If he hadn’t defended himself fast enough he would have been a dead man with a ripped throat on the forest floor. His senses were on high alert but he could only sense one familiar wolf among the enemies and that was the one fighting him.Asher, Lance, and Jayden on the other hand were struggling with their opponents. Lance was struggling with two wolves and he was pinned between the both of them.Noah turned his attention to the wolf rebounding to attack him, he reverted back into human form as he raised his hands in an X shape and parted his legs so that he was standing firm on the ground and as soon as the wolf attacked him again he gripped its neck and hefted it over his shoulder and brought it to the ground with all his strength.The wolf, now sweaty struggled against Noah’s hold on it and a laugh escaped him.“You haven’t lost your edge, Noah.”Noah recognized that vo
As soon as the goddess left, the weight of her powers disappeared and Percy and the others dropped with a heavy thud on the forest ground. They immediately ran to her to make sure she was okay but none of them could touch her. Maggie opened her eyes and realized there was awe in their gazes.She groaned and raised her hand to her head where the goddess had kicked her. Even though she was mad at herself for being weak and at the goddess for being so merciless, she was in awe of the woman whose combat skills were nothing like she had ever seen. The goddess was more than that, she was a woman with experience in battle and Maggie could tell because of her quick strategy while they fought and the weight of her leg when it made an impact on her head.“What was that you just did?” Eldan asked in awe.“I got my ass handed to me on a platter of mud,” she bit out angrily. Her head had stopped bleeding as soon as she reverted to her human form and when she looked around she discovered the forest
Maggie shook off the vertigo of teletransportation and her eyes immediately widened. She was back in the mansion but the sight before her eyes was definitely not what she had been expecting. Ezekiel was not just gathering an army to attack her, he had sent some of them to destroy the mansion and everyone in it. The men in black had forced their way through the gate and were just getting out of the cars with guns cocked and ready to go by their sides.Maggie stood motionless at the center watching them. They hadn’t noticed her yet.A window opened upstairs and Cathy looked down and immediately saw her. She looked terrified.“Maggie, they are here for you. Run!”But the men weren’t there for only her, they were there for all of them. There were 6 of them in all. Ezekiel wasn’t waiting anymore to claim what was hers. And he was smart about it too. The sun was just cracking through the clouds and as soon as the day was clear humans would come out which meant they couldn’t fight in wolf fo